10 Ways to Customize YouTube Embed Code Options

I just posted How to Customize YouTube Embed Code Options – Top 10 Tips the other day, and this post offers you the bonus tip #11.

This YouTube (YT) embed code option will help you to stop loosing your site visitors to YT.

The video below is embedded with the options allowed by YT embed player, namely I chose the size, the frame, and no related videos (see the screen shot above.)

But most importantly, if you click on it, as many people will do, it will take you away from my blog and, in the best case scenario, to my YourNetBizTraining YouTube channel or, much worse, to somebody else’s channel, if the embedded video is not my own.

So by posting my video the way I did above, I ran the risk of loosing my blog traffic to YT.

11. How to stop loosing your site visitors to YT.

Follow these directions – look for these 2 sections of code and change it accordingly:

param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”

change to

param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”

param name=””allowScriptAccess” value=”always”

change to

param name=”allownetworking” value=”internal”

You might also see it phrased like this:

allowfullscreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always”
so change it to
wmode=”transparent” allownetworking=”internal”

Here is the same video with the changes in place - try to click on it and, you guessed it, you will stay right where you are.

For those of you who need a visual demonstration, here is my embed code before the changes:

<object width=”580″ height=”360″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/h4aY4HJj994&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true“></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always“></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/h4aY4HJj994&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”580″ height=”360″></embed></object>

Here it is with the changes implemented (I also changed the code to turn off the title, ratings, and search - if you want to read more about it, go to How to Customize YouTube Embed Code Options – Top 10 Tips):

<object width=”580″ height=”360″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/h4aY4HJj994&hl=en_US&showinfo=0&&showsearch=0&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1″></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent“></param><param name=”allownetworking” value=”internal”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/h4aY4HJj994&hl=en_US&showinfo=0&&showsearch=0&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allownetworking=”internal” wmode=”transparent” width=”580″ height=”360″></embed></object>

Well, there you have.

As another bonus, I will let you in on a little secret of how I get thousands of views on my videos while other YT marketers are lucky to get a hundred.

Actually, it’s no secret at all. The first reason is my natural charm:), and the second one is consistently using Traffic Geyser to spread my video content all over the net.

Is it free to use? No. I wish. Is it worth every dime? Take a look at my YourNetBizTraining YouTube channel and tell me.

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